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Born to be Criminal : the Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary Approaches /

This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various disci...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hartmann, Anne (Editor ), Nicolosi, Riccardo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
Colección:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction / Nicolosi, Riccardo / Hartmann, Anne
  • I. Inborn Criminality and the Late Russian Empire
  • The Empire-Born Criminal / Mogilner, Marina
  • P.I. Kovalevskii / McReynolds, Louise
  • Criminality, Deviance, and Anthropological Diversity / Nicolosi, Riccardo
  • II. On the Treatment of Social Deviance and Criminals in the Late 1920s-early 1930S
  • Recidivism, Social Atavism, and State Security in Early Soviet Policing / Shearer, David
  • Cesare Lombroso and the Social Engineering of Soviet Society / Junge, Marc
  • Concepts of the Criminal in the Discourse of "Perekovka" / Hartmann, Anne
  • III. Political and 'Other' Prisoners
  • Literature of the Gulag
  • Criminals in Gulag Accounts / Lachmann, Renate
  • Varlam Shalamov's Sketches of the Criminal World / Toker, Leona
  • On the Contributors
  • Backmatter